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- Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi accept the Best International Feature Film award for "Drive My Car" during the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, in Hollywood, California.
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Mar 28, 2022 · Published 9:48 PM PDT, March 27, 2022. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The emotional epic from Japan “Drive My Car” won the Academy Award for best international feature film Sunday night. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film became the fifth from Japan to win the Oscar, the first since “Departures” in 2008.
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Cameroon: Hidden Dreams
This is the fourth time Cameroon has entered the international feature award; and the first time it has done so two years in succession, after last year’s submission The Fisherman’s Diary. Hidden Dreams centres on a young British scout who is displaced to a Cameroonian village. He challenges the era of tradition in the 1960s, which gravely endangers his life. It is Romanus’ second film, after 2018’s Bed Of Thorns. Of the 73 international feature awards (including honorary prizes), only three...
Haiti: Freda
Haiti enters the international feature award for only the second time, with the debut feature from Haitian actor-turned-filmmaker Geneus. It debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which has launched nine of this year’s international feature entries. Freda centres on a young woman who lives with her family in a popular neighborhood in Haiti. They survive through their street food shop, but the precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to e...
Lithuania: Isaac
The Academy accepted a change in the Lithuanian entry; the country initially entered Giedre Zickyte’s documentary The Jump, before moving that to the documentary category. Taking its place as the international feature submission is Jurgis Matulevicius’ Holocaust drama Isaac, about a Lithuanian activist who kills the titular Jewish man in 1941, and is then haunted by guilt for years to come. Isaac is based on a novella by Antanas Skema; the film premiered at Tallinn Black Nights in 2019, and w...
Algeria: Heliopolis
This feature has been selected for a second time to represent Algeria, after it was submitted but then withdrawn by the Algerian Oscar committee last year, reportedly owing to the Covid pandemic preventing it from screening. Chaired by filmmaker Mohamed Lakhdar Hamina, the committee selected the film from among three others. The feature takes place at the end of World War II in a small Algerian town as French troops embark upon an atrocious massacre, now known as the Sétif and Guelma massacre...
Chad: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
For the country’s third submission, Chad has opted for Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, which was selected for the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. A mother’s world starts to crumble when she discovers her teenage daughter is pregnant. In Chad, abortion is outlawed and condemned by religion, but the teenager is adamant she does not want the child. The drama is a co-production with France, Belgium, Germany and director Haroun’s seventh feature.
Egypt: Souad
Amin’s social realist drama would have premiered at Cannes 2020, before that festival was cancelled due the pandemic. The film was awarded the Cannes Label instead, and launched at Tribeca in June 2021. It revolves around the relationship between two teenage sisters in one of Egypt’s Nile Delta cities, as one of them holds a secret life in the virtual world. Egypt has one of the longest runs of any country without a nomination or win in the international feature award, entering for the 36th t...
Argentina: The Intruder
The story of Inés, a young woman who after a traumatic episode during a trip with her partner begins to confuse herself between the real and the imaginary. The Intruder debuted in Competition at the 2020 Berlinale; it is Meta’s second feature, after 2014’s Death In Buenos Aires starring Demian Bichir. This is Argentina’s 48th submission to the foreign-language award; they have taken the top prize twice: in 1986, for Luis Puenzo’s The Official Story, and in 2010, for Juan José Campanella’s The...
Bolivia: The Great Movement
Russo represents Bolivia on the Oscar stage for the second time, after Dark Skull for the 2018 awards. The Great Movement may represent a better shot, having debuted in Horizons at Venice Film Festival in September 2021. Itfollows a young miner as he looks for work alongside his friends, even as he begins to descend into a mysterious sickness. This is Bolivia’s 13th Oscar entry, including two which were disqualified; none have yet reached the nomination stage.
Brazil: Private Desert
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Bangladesh: Rehana
Cannes title Rehana tells the story of an assistant professor at a medical college who struggles to keep the peace between her work and family life. When she comes across a traumatised student at the college, her worlds starts to descend into chaos. The film was nominated at Cannes for the Un Certain Regard Award, with Berlin-based sales agent Films Boutique representing world sales. This is Saad’s second feature, after his 2016 debut Live From Dhaka.
Bhutan:Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The London Film Festival premiere was put forward in 2020 as Bhutan’s submission, but was disqualified. Pawo Choyning Dorji’s directorial debut has now been re-submitted. The film follows the journey of a teacher, Ugyen, who is sent to a harsh terrain in northern Bhutan for his final year of training. The high altitude and remoteness of the area make Ugyen want to leave, while the school children try desperately to win him over. Bhutan have only entered three times, the first being The Cupin...
Cambodia: White Building
Neang’s feature debut had its world premiere in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival. It follows a 20-year-old man and his friends in a landmark tenement housing block in the Cambodian capital, who harbor dreams of dancing on television talent contests. Screen revealed the first trailer for the film, here. This is Cambodia’s 10th international feature entry, missing just one year since 2013; three of them have been directed by Rithy Panh, including the country’s only nomination, for T...
Albania: Two Lions Heading To Venice
Two Albanian filmmakers head to the award ceremony of Venice Film Festival; but after meeting two actresses from the adult film industry, the purpose of their trip changes. Jorgji’s debut feature premiered not on the Lido, but in his native country in 2020. It is the 14th submission to the international feature award from Albania; the country is yet to reach the longlist stage with its previous entries.
Armenia: Should The Wind Drop
Armenian director Martirosyan’s debut feature was set for a prestige festival launch at Cannes 2020 before the pandemic put paid to that festival. Instead the film was awarded the Cannes 2020 label in the First Features section. It has still managed an impressive festival run, at events including Toronto, Tallinn, Thessaloniki and Jerusalem. Set in the war-torn disputed territory of Nagorno-Kabakh, the film centres on an engineer who must decide whether to open the local airport. Of nine prev...
Austria: Great Freedom
Meise’s third feature won the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard on its debut at Cannes 2021, with Mubi picking up the title for territories including North America and the UK during the festival, and setting a theatrical release for March 4. Set in postwar Germany, it stars Franz Rogowski as a man imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long-time cellmate - a convicted murderer; and what starts in revulsion grows to love. This is Aust...
Iran: A Hero
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Iraq: Europa
Having not submitted for the past two years, Iraq returns to the Oscar international feature category with Italian-Iraqi director Rashid’s drama, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2021. At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has three days to escape. It is the Middle Eastern nation’s 10th submission to the award, with no wins or nominations from previous entries.
Israel: Let It Be Morning
Eran Kolirin’s Let It Be Morningwas selected after it won best film at the Israeli Film Academy annual awards. Kolirin adapted the mainly Arab-language feature from the 2006 novel of the same name by celebrated Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua. The film had a contentious festival launch in Cannes this July after most of the cast, including Bakri, Suleiman and Salim Daw, refused to attend the world premiere in Un Certain Regard in a protest aimed at highlighting the “decades-long colonial campa...
Australia: When Pomegranates Howl
Iranian-Australian filmmaker Granaz Moussavi’s second feature was shot in Afghanistan, and tells the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hewad (Arafat Faiz) who hustles on the streets of Kabul for survival, but dreams of being a movie star. When he is befriended by an Australian photojournalist, Hewad suspects his luck might be starting to change. The Australian-Afghanistani co-production is written by Moussav and produced by Parvin Productions in association with Sterga Productions. The film...
Mar 24, 2022 · Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films. CNN —. The best international feature film category at the Academy Awards could, in some ways, be compared to flying economy. Often, the five films...
Mar 28, 2022 · LOS ANGELES, March 27 (Reuters) - Japanese drama "Drive My Car," the story of a widowed theater actor grappling with his past, won the Academy Award on Sunday for best international...
Mar 28, 2022 · KYODO NEWS Arts All Japan. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car" won best international feature at the 94th U.S. Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, becoming the first Japanese film in 13 years to bag the prestigious Oscar for the category after having garnered a string of international accolades.
Mar 24, 2022 · 2022 Oscars nominees for best international feature are "Drive My Car," "Flee," "The Hand of God," 'Lunana" and "Worst Person in the World."
Mar 10, 2022 · Movies. Movie News. Oscars: A Guide to the Best International Feature Nominees. The Hollywood Reporter takes a closer look at the five films selected to compete this year, each a...
